In his nearly 1,500-page post-Partition epic A Suitable Boy, one of the longest novels in the English language, author Vikram Seth weaves the stories of two upper-middle-class North Indian families navigating ardor, marital negotiations and politicized religious conflict as their newly independent nation sloughs off the stink of colonial British rule.
Falling somewhere between escapist period soap (the bread and butter of its Welsh screenwriter, Andrew Davies) and sensorial family saga (the lifeblood of its Indian-American director, Mira Nair), BBC's anglicized six-episode A Suitable Boy adaptation seemingly fails to capture the ideological vastness of Seth's vision, instead opting for accessible tawdriness.
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